Postgame picture of Lagerald Vick
justanotherfan
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I don't expect that Doke will play 30+ minutes in another game all year, so McCormack will have some time. When you have three guys play 30+ minutes like KU did last night, it's hard to tap into the depth. I don't think we will see many games like that this year, though.
Perhaps they will do both
They also are talking about doing something with health care, and a bipartisan effort on infrastructure. The infrastructure thing should be an easy thing to put together, but Republicans will need to play along.
Whether the Senate and POTUS decide to work with them on those items (or anything at all) will be up to the GOP leadership, but they are looking to at least propose something.
Of course, until anything gets done, this is all just speculation.
I actually was pleased with both Dotson and Grimes. Dotson got after it on defense (a couple of steals, and caused at least one other turnover with his ball pressure), and once Grimes noticed the flames sparking off Vick's shooting hand, he correctly determined to get him and Doke the ball as often as he possibly could. I can't ask a guy with that level of talent to make a better basketball IQ decision than that. He decided to keep giving Vick shots until he started missing, except that Vick never started missing.
Dedric and Doke are a nice combination when Dedric is feeding Doke, but when Dedric is looking to score, Doke is crowding the paint a bit, making it easier to double Dedric big to big. Since Doke can't really space the floor, they either have to find a way to get interior lobs from Dedric to Doke to force Doke's man to stay on him, or play through Doke when he's on the floor, and play four out to get Dedric involved. It's not a huge concern right now, but it's something that KU has to be thinking about because it has been an issue for back to back games. Dedric simply doesn't have space to operate when paired with Doke inside.
Doke is tough to officiate at the college level. Referees aren't sure what's contact and what's a push.
Lagerald Vick bombing away. Flames shooting off his hands right now.
The first few polls have lots of movement because everyone is seeing teams for the first time. Everyone saw Duke beat Kentucky. Few probably watched their second game against Army yesterday. Some pollsters rank based on expectation. Some rank based on performance to date (of which there isn't much right now). Give it until December to have a chance to settle down. I don't think any team has played even three games yet. Things are fluid right now.
There's always one or two surprise firings. I don't have my ear to the ground on football as much as basketball, but with the leash as short as it is at the D1 level, and the P5 level in particular, it wouldn't surprise me to see some jobs open up.
Remember, coaches can also be derailed by scandal. I wouldn't have guessed the Maryland job would be open, but it is. Michigan State and Ohio State probably won't be open, but there are scenarios that could open those jobs up.
Nobody expected that Baylor would fire Art Briles until the house was already burning down. Nobody thought K-State fans would ever be unhappy with Bill Snyder, but here we are.
I would guess that a P5 job that isn't on anybody's radar today will come open this offseason, and that job will throw a wrinkle into everyone's hiring process.
If Mitch wants to be an impact player at KU, he will need to add things to his game. That includes a three point shot. Becoming a 35% three point shooter from the 4 position makes him a very good collegiate weapon at the 4 spot. He's not big enough or athletic enough to be a primary scorer, but as a release valve that can hit threes from the top or corner, he becomes very valuable, particularly as a floor spacing option.
The idea in the NBA will be to use young guys in the G League unless there are injuries or ineffectiveness from veterans. Young players need to play. In the past, there wasn't that opportunity in the NBA, but that is happening in the G League, along with the fact that there are more practices in the G League than the NBA due to the NBA travel schedule.
Devonte will spend most of this year in the G League, but I fully expect him to be in Charlotte to start next season.
Vermont probably isn't quite a tournament team this year (although last year they should have been, but were upset in the conference tourney, so maybe this year they do go). That said, they are a solid low major program. Lots of consistency year to year. They will be a nice test for our team , but I fully expect this squad to pull away in the second half and win by 18-25.
Republicans in the Senate will never convict Trump of impeachment, regardless of what evidence is presented, so it's pointless to pursue. Better to let the investigations run their course, and, if there was illegal activity, pursue that criminally once he is out of office. Impeachment doesn't move anything forward at this point because the Republicans in the Senate will just dig their heels in no matter what. They have already shown this in other situations. I don't see how this would be any different.
I thought the GOP trying to impeach Clinton for the Lewinsky stuff was silly, and I would find the Democrats attempting to impeach Trump for all of his womanizing equally silly.
I want to see the new Democratic house attempt to govern. No, their stuff won't pass the Senate, but I don't want to see the Democratic party turn into the GOP circa 2010 with everything geared towards stopping Trump with no eye on actually governing. Propose health care policy. Give us budgetary policy. If the Senate sits on their hands, well, the map reverses in 2020 so let the GOP Senators that are up then decide how they want to play this. I want policy, not politics.
I'll be honest, this isn't really news. Anybody that thought that someone as obsessed with his own wealth as Trump would not know about payments being made on his behalf was lying to themselves.
I don't think its worth pursuing politically. If there were crimes committed, those should be pursued by local law enforcement if the statute of limitations has not expired. If the statute of limitations has expired, moving on from this isn't the worst thing in the world.
BShark said:
@kjayhawks @justanotherfan The unregistered vehicle would be interesting. I was told KSU did it "the right way" :thinking:
"Unregistered" could simply mean that the tags were out of date. It doesn't necessarily mean that the vehicle was given improperly. Of course, everything about Billy Preston came from a one car accident.
kjayhawks said:
@BShark I wouldn’t normally say this is a big deal, Graham had the same thing happen his junior here but man 3 guys this season? That’s crazy maybe Snyder should try a different method of punishment.
The offenses aren't particularly serious (all parking/traffic related), but the fact that several players all failed to appear or take care of these tickets reveals an underlying problem within the program - lack of oversight.
It's a little thing, but could point to some bigger issues under the surface.
BeddieKU23 said:
Wiggins shooting near 40% from 3 so far. He's still one of the laziest players in the league but its good to see his shooting numbers becoming respectable
Wiggins is a tremendous athlete, but only an average basketball player. What I mean by that is that his overall basketball skills are fairly pedestrian.
He's a good, but not great shooter, owing probably more to his athleticism than actual skill. He's not a great ball handler. He's not as good a defender as his physical tools suggest he should be.
Everything Wiggins does is a testament to his athleticism. He's worked to improve his athleticism, but he hasn't become tremendously skilled in the process.
I think that is why Jimmy Butler became so frustrated with him. Wiggins is probably one of the 4 or 5 best athletes in the NBA, but he's not even a top 35 player in the league.
A tour of the White House is a great experience. It's something that you should do if you get the chance. I have been in DC a couple of different times, but both times no tours were available the days I was free to go. Maybe next time. There is a lot of history around DC. Not just the White House, but all along the Mall. The White House is tough to get into now (for good reason), but the Smithsonian and all of the memorials and other museums make a DC trip worthwhile if you are into the history at all.
Some of his dissents make me question that.
Vick is a streaky shooter as opposed to a pure shooter. Vick can definitely hit 4 or 5 in a game, but he also may go 0-7. He can go through long hot or cold stretches. That makes it tough to rely on him as a floor spacer because he can go cold for a while.
That has nothing to do with his concentration. He just isn't a pure shooter like Svi. Pure shooters (the Reggie Miller's, Ray Allen's of the world) don't really go hot and cold. They can get hot, but they don't really go cold and missed tons of shots in a row.
Streak shooters run hot and cold. These are guys like JR Smith. They can really get going and hit a bunch of shots in a row, but they can also struggle and go on a long slump.
Svi is one of the former. Vick is one of the later. In high school I had a teammate that was a pure shooter. He could get hot, but he was consistent. I was more of a streak shooter. I could get going and knock in a few in a row, but wasn't going to knock down shots like that every single night.
If Duke were to go small with Zion at the 5, there's no one for Doke to guard. That's my whole point. If Duke keeps a traditional lineup with Zion at the 4, then Doke is okay to stay in the game and guard their big man. But if Doke goes small with Zion at the 5, Doke has to come out of the game because he can't guard Zion, Barrett or Reddish.
Every coach in the country saw what Villanova did to KU in the Final Four last year. There are only a handful of teams that can exploit that, but Duke happens to be one of them.
On the note of UK looking bad against Kentucky, I think we are overhyping the sample size. Think of it this way. If KU's game against Villanova had been to start the season, rather than in the Final Four, there would have been panic throughout Jayhawk land after seeing Villanova take KU apart the way that they did. The reality is that it was just a bad matchup for KU, and that Villanova likely beats KU 9 out of 10 times because KU couldn't match up with them. It didn't mean that KU wasn't any good. It just meant that Villanova exploited all of KU's weaknesses.
Duke was the same for UK. If that game was in April instead of November, no one would say that UK was bad. Everyone would talk about how sharp Duke was, how overwhelmingly talented, etc. Duke is going to do that to a lot of people this year - not just UK. I need to watch them again to see how to stop them, but I have some ideas bouncing around my head.
I hope those comments were to build confidence. Doke is a guy that fits on extremes. When he matches up well, he can be one of the most dominant players in the country. When he doesn't, he can be completely out of sorts on the floor. It's rare to have a player that can exist at both extremes, but Doke is that guy.
It's especially apparent because he isn't the type of guy that can hurt a team if he doesn't get to his spots. If you can push Doke out away from the basket, he can't really hurt you because he doesn't handle the ball well enough to make combination moves.
Self's in a tricky spot, here.
Texas Hawk 10 said:
For the most part, the Silvio situation won't impact KU on the court. The one team that not having Silvio is really going to hurt Kansas is if they play Duke in the NCAA tournament. Silvio would've allowed Self to play a line up of Doke, Silvio, and Dedric against Duke's front line.
I disagree. Doke can't play against this Duke team. He's not agile enough to handle Zion. Duke would just go small and force Doke to cover Zion and that would be a huge mismatch in favor of Zion. Plus, Zion is so strong that Doke can't really bully him on the other end.
If KU plays Duke, they have to play their most agile guys. Doke probably can't play more than 10 or 15 minutes against this Duke team.
Doke can play against UK because he can match up against Travis inside and likely have an advantage. Doke is very matchup dependent. Against smaller teams, he will often end up at a bit of a disadvantage defensively, and if he isn't dominating in the post, he probably shouldn't play much.
Doke is going to have some games this year where he absolutely terrorizes teams and dunks them to death. He's going to have others where he probably shouldn't get on the floor more than a few minutes a game.
The question is whether Self is ready to swing that heavily in his lineups and rotations from game to game.
approxinfinity said:
@justanotherfan Good observation. If you see decisions that seem conflictory please call them out. I remain interested, regardless of Senator Turtlehead's proclamation that "these things always blow over".
It will probably take a little bit of time because Kavanaugh might not write more than a couple of opinions in this first session.
The most recent example from the SCOTUS was their rulings in Masterpiece Cake and the "Muslim Ban", which came only weeks apart.
In Masterpiece Cake, SCOTUS ruled that the comments that one of the reviewers in Colorado made during the hearing showed animus that caused the decision to be clouded even though those statements were not contained within the order.
However, when considering the "Muslim Ban", the court determined that statements by the President and his administration should not be considered because they were not part of the actual language in the executive order.
That's a results based approach, where in one case statements made outside the language of the determination were considered, while in another case they were not.
As a result, you have case law now where statements by government officials may be considered, or they may not be. Those are bad rulings because people have no way of knowing how the court will rule when statements outside the order are made because the SCOTUS has made two completely opposite decisions, using those outside statements to strike down one ruling, while ignoring the statements to uphold the other.
This inconsistency is bad for the legal environment. I would rather they either upheld both (or struck down both) because it gives us a clear rule - statements that take a negative view of a particular religion will (or will not) be considered when looking at the order in question. Right now, we don't know because we have rulings in conflict.
I fear that Kavanaugh is a result based judge. He decides the outcome he wants, then looks for a legal rationale to support it. We will know soon enough, as those types of judges typically have conflicting rationales on similar issues because they wanted one outcome in one situation, and the opposite outcome in another situation.
Dotson could end up as the #3 scorer on this team because of his speed in transition. That could get him an extra bucket or two here and there, which could edge him in front of Doke even if Doke gets more chances in the set offense. Dotson also benefits from likely knocking down his FTs, so he should get opportunities to close games with a few cheap points when needed. Those two factors could slide him in front of Doke, though I would anticipate they average roughly the same over the course of the season.
This KU team shouldn't be closing games with Doke on the floor anyway. Down the stretch, you don't need him for his scoring and with Dedric as good a rebounder as he is, you don't need him for that.
KU should be closing games with D. Lawson, Vick, Grimes, Dotson and probably K. Lawson or a defensive minded interior guy. I wouldn't be opposed to having Lightfoot on the floor to close games, honestly.
BigBad said:
@justanotherfan so a 6'5 210lb spot up shooter? Man what a waste!
I don't disagree, but the fact is that Grimes is the only player on the roster with that specific skillset.
We have other guys that can slash. We don't have a spot up shooter on the roster. There's no Brannen Greene or Andrew White. If there were, they would play 20 mpg for this team because of the floor spacing they would provide.
Moore is a very good shooter, but his size makes it tough for him to be a spot up shooter. Grimes has to stretch the floor because no one else really can on a consistent basis. Maybe Vick steps into that role a bit more, but even then, it's Grimes and Vick in that role, and that's it.
Duke is going to have a lot of games where they have the three best players on the floor. That's tough to overcome, particularly in college basketball. The only thing that can hang Duke up is their lack of depth, but even having just two of those three available will be too much for most teams.
Kentucky will be fine. They aren't going to be at a talent deficit in most any game the rest of the way, other than against KU. That game was in many ways like the game we had with Kentucky the Anthony Davis year. They just overwhelmed us in the early game because we had no answer for all of that talent.
Grimes can slash. You look at his high school highlights and see that he can put the ball on the floor.
However, Grimes is also probably the best catch and shoot option on this team. That means he necessarily has to spend more time spotting up than slashing to the basket because he doesn't have as many viable kick out options. Grimes also has significant gravity, so his man cannot sink down to help on a drive, or he can punish them with his shooting.
If KU had another floor spacer on the roster (a Svi or Devonte, for example), Grimes could probably drive more. Dotson may provide some of that as the season goes, but I don't know that he will generate enough gravity before the end of the year.
Suffice it to say that Grimes will likely spend a lot of time spacing the floor, with most of his two point shots coming in transition, while many of his threes will come on kickouts and reversals within the regular offense.
Grimes will be a star at the next level. Whether he is a star at KU is still to be determined. His game will translate so easily to today's NBA. There will be games where Self will need to just turn Grimes loose and let him go crazy. That's always been an issue with Self, though he has shifted over the last couple of years with Mason and Graham running the show.
Grimes is the most talented player on the roster, no exceptions. Dedric has more experience and probably should have the offense run through him, but Grimes has that unstoppable take over the game talent that few possess.
Football recruiting and basketball recruiting are two vastly different things. Beyond that, KU football is in a much different place than KU basketball has EVER been in.
In football, you have to sign 20+ talented players every single year or you will be in trouble. In basketball, you only need a couple each year.
In football, position matters. You can't just sign six great running backs and figure the rest out later. You need linemen. You need skill guys. Offense. Defense. It makes a difference.
In basketball, position doesn't really matter. Give me a couple guys that can play every year and we can figure the rest out. Yeah, it's nice to check off different positions, but when in doubt, talent trumps all.
KU basketball has been one of the premier programs since basically the day the program started.
KU football has been... a program.
There's a huge difference in the two.
Not having a fertile recruiting ground hurts because every football program needs to be able to sign several local kids each year that help the team.
JuCos can help with that, but a lot of those guys will only be around for two years. That puts even more pressure on you to hit with every single recruiting class because if five or six of those guys don't pan out, your recruiting class looks like Charlie Weis'.
You list some nice positives there.
The drawbacks probably aren't as numerous, but they are significant.
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Lack of a prime recruiting pipeline. KC area isn't large enough to produce the amount of talent needed to sustain all of the local D1 programs. KU will never be a top choice for kids from Texas, Louisiana, Sun Belt states, etc.
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Recent program turmoil. KU fired Gill after just two seasons. They fired Weis after two and a half. Bowen will get four full seasons, but you have to go back to Mangino to find a coach that made it to his fifth season, and KU has never had a coach last a full decade. Only four head coaches have lasted at least 90 games at KU. EVER
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Lack of fan interest. KU has never truly generated a strong interest in the football program. Some of that is because the program has been up and down (with a lot of down). But some has also been that even when the team was better, you couldn't get people invested in it.
Like I said, the list is shorter, but no less daunting. The lack of a pipeline for talent makes it very hard to build consistent success. That results in lots of turnover, which ushers in a general meh feeling to the program. Rinse and repeat. This hire could change that, but it has to be a home run hire, especially since K-State is about to enter a down cycle that could open the door for KU to capitalize.
kjayhawks said:
@justanotherfan I know your post is kinda old but which do you prefer as a judge? Liberal or conservative? I don’t consider my self either but being a foster parent for 7 years I pray to god I never have to sit in another court room with a liberal judge. I have literally seen it cost children their lives because the judge gives abusers and addicts 10 or 15 chances before they try to take parental rights. A conservative gives them about 3 before they allow the kid to be adopted.
Both have their flaws.
Conservatives tend to side with the state quite a bit more, while liberals tend to try to avoid taking kids away, although that is by no means a hard and fast rule.
I have noticed that lots of people (not just directing at you) tend to say a judge is liberal or conservative based on a ruling they don't like. Judges make lots of rulings.
I would prefer judges that are more centrist, but probably slightly left, but that is mostly because that also aligns with my personal politics. The best judges aren't either liberal or conservative, but rule based on the facts before them. The reason we often end up with judges leaning one way or another is because the majority (whatever it may be at the time) attempts to bend the law in a certain direction to fit their own politics.
Conservatives have been wanting a "conservative court" for some time because they were frustrated that a lot of things got overturned by judges that they branded "liberal". The truth is, many of those judges were "conservative" politically, but ruled against the conservative position because it was not legally defensible.
As I have said before, when you are looking for specific outcomes rather than looking for the law to be applied, you will get judges that make rulings that are not consistent, like what happened earlier this year on the Supreme Court.
The case does not analyze the immigration status of his parents - only of him. You are incorrect. The status of Mr. Wong was established by his birth in the United States, not by his parents' immigration status.
JayHawkFanToo said:
That is a straw man argument. Everybody knows (or should) the Constitution cannot be changed with an executive order. The objective is not for Trump to change the constitution, the real objective is for the executive order to be challenged and the case referred to the SCOTUS where the 14th Ammendment can be finally be interpreted and once and for all decided in the place where it should be. Here is a good write up on the subject. ↗
You say this as if the 14th Amendment has never been interpreted in the Supreme Court ↗ before.
For those that don't want to follow the link, that's United States v. Wong Kim Ark from 1898. Mr. Wong was born in the U.S. to Chinese parents in the 1870s. His parents returned to China in the 1890s and he went to visit them. Upon returning, he was denied entry because of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, which prohibited Chinese laborers from coming to the U.S. However, the Court held that because Mr. Wong was born in the U.S., he was a U.S. citizen and the act did not apply to him, therefore he was allowed to return and reside in the U.S.
The 14th Amendment was interpreted and decided in the place it should be, and the decision is that birthright citizenship is in fact extended to everyone born here.
I'm not saying don't ever give Doke the ball. That would be crazy. But I think he can be even more efficient if he isn't posting up much and is instead catching on dives to the basket, or lobs and put backs. Those are plays where the other team can't double him without completely breaking down their defensive integrity.
Doke in the post is easy to double because he's stationary. On the move, particularly if you have to also account for Dedric in the post, Doke as a dive cutter is basically either a bucket or a foul every time. You can't double him on the move, you can't leave Dedric and Dedric one on one against most anyone is trouble for the other team.
In some ways this KU offense could look like the Chiefs offense this year. It just stretches you so many different ways that you are bound to get hurt no matter what you do because you have to help in so many different spots.
Offensively, KU needs to use Doke as a third or fourth option, not a primary or secondary option.
Doke just isn't a skilled enough passer to hurt teams when they double him. Dedric is much better in that capacity. Offensively, the pecking order should be D.Lawson, then Grimes, Vick, PG X (Moore or Dotson), Doke, K.Lawson, Garrett, Big Man X (Silvio, Big Dave, Mitch). KU is much more dangerous that way.
As for MSU, I say KU by 9, pulling away late 68-59.
Apparently you don't understand irony and sarcasm.
A lot of people have said that various "other" groups should be banned or subjected to more scrutiny because of incidents, be it a Muslim ban, or the "Papers please" thing in Arizona, or police stopping minority males, etc. And in each case, the argument is that this additional scrutiny is not racist, but is based on things like safety and a threat to the public.
But when that additional scrutiny is pointed at a group that is not traditionally marginalized, then there is outcry about reverse racism. Now, I am not saying that you personally have done the former. I cannot remember you ever doing that. But it has been done, and it has been done by others on this very board. I don't think we need a "white guy" ban, but I also don't think we need a Muslim ban, or Papers please or to follow young minority males.
But it is funny that a lot of people that are upset about Don Lemon uttering those words also cheered when then Candidate Trump talked about banning Muslims.
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal...
dylans said:
@wissox Kawhi made Simmons look like really bad ball player. We all knew Ben can’t shoot, Kawhi wouldn’t even let him dribble. Wow, I forgot how good Kawhi is. Amazing
When healthy, one of the best five players on the planet.
dylans said:
The local economy already sucks. Ag has taken it on the chin for a couple years now. Maybe a market correction means we can actually stop starving and losing jobs out here. Freakin tariffs are killing us though. Long term it may be good, but the short term is putting the marginal guys out of business.
I don't know that tariffs will help long term.
China is going to buy soy and wheat from somewhere (probably South America). If and when the U.S. and China are back on trade terms, what's to force China to start buying those things from the U.S. instead of continuing to buy from South America? I just don't see how this helps long term unless the tariffs end soon enough that long term trade relationships aren't established to exclude the U.S.
China and India are the two largest countries in the world. More than a quarter of the world's population lives in those two countries. China itself makes up about 15% of the world's population. To be shut out of that market is devastating to our ag interests. To be shut out long term would mean either having to push into India more (a very competitive market), or getting back into sub Sahara Africa. Those are the markets that need our ag the most. If we aren't in one of those areas, that hurts our agricultural sector.
The more I watch Doke, the more I struggle to see a place for him in the modern NBA. The NBA wants big men like Silvio (who is probably headed to the NBA next year anyway). There just isn't much upside for a big that can't handle the ball, shoot past ten feet or switch onto guards. Doke is in the wrong era. He'd already be in the NBA if this was the 90's because his size would be coveted by every team trying to deal with Shaq, Ewing, Olajuwon, Mourning, etc. But that era has passed.
You have to go skill guys 1-5. The NBA is moving away from guys at either extreme. You will see fewer guys under 6-2 in the NBA, but also fewer guys over 6-10 because everyone needs to be able to guard anyone on the other team. A really big guy is at the same disadvantage as a really small guy. That's the new trend. You want a bunch of guys 6-5 to 6-8 (why Quentin Grimes is a top 5 pick right now IMHO - he can play PG and is 6-5).
The market was growing at an unsustainable rate.
Beyond that, interest rates had to start going up because had they remained at or near zero, there would be nothing to lower when the next recession came along.
This has been coming since the early spring. I thought the GOP would try to hold it off until after election day so that they could blame the tumble on the Democrats, but it looks like this is happening soon regardless of who wins next Tuesday.
My point isn't about whether or not it can happen. Trump can't change the constitution by executive order.
My point was about whether other Republicans would stand up and say that. Some have (Paul Ryan among them). Some have not (Kris Kobach is notable in this group).
There are lots of people in this country that don't know that Trump cannot do this, just like there are lots of people that don't understand sending the military to the border means nothing because they cannot engage in any action on U.S. soil without the permission of the local government. But that hasn't stopped him from trying yet.
Snyder's stubbornness made him a very good coach, but it also kept him from ever becoming a great one.
Snyder was insistent on doing things his way. As a result, he never tried to upgrade KSU's overall talent base to include more four star prospects. That meant that even as the rest of the conference upgraded their coaching staffs, he never upgraded his talent to match theirs. Look around the Big 12 now. Where does KSU have a distinct coaching advantage? I'd argue that they don't have a significant advantage over anyone other than KU. And with KSU's talent deficit, that makes winning in conference pretty tough.
Add to that the fact that college football has changed over the last 30 years.
When Snyder started at KSU, you could schedule four non conference games and play your other seven conference games. If you scheduled four easy wins, you could go 2-5 or 3-4 in conference and still advance to a bowl. Then it was 12 games, but the same four non conference, with eight conference games. You could go 6-6 and make a bowl. Snyder took full advantage of this. Excluding his first year when the team went 1-10, Snyder's teams lost seven regular season non-conference games between 1990 and 2005. That's 16 years. Snyder basically scheduled himself four guaranteed wins just about every season.
Snyder still doesn't lose many non conference regular season games now (seven more over the last 10 years), but he only gets three non conference games now instead of four. On top of that, he's no longer coaching in college football's desert, having weak programs at KU, MU and Iowa State to regularly pick up wins against. When Snyder started, he had seven wins on his schedule before he played a single game (maybe eight when Oklahoma State was down). Now, he has three or four. He has to scuffle to get bowl eligible. And in three of the last four years (including this one) KSU has had to scramble down the stretch to get enough wins to get bowl eligible.
Snyder can't schedule his way to a bowl (Big 12 put pressure on K-State to schedule stronger non conference opponents or be shut out of the early season TV schedule), so he has to have a P5 team on the slate. He can't pick on anyone in conference (other than KU right now). There's no clear path back to success for KSU because Snyder's blueprint depended on scheduling weaker opponents in non-conference and honing his execution against teams that couldn't blow him off the field with talent. Without that, Snyder is stuck.
This was always how it was going to end for KSU. Snyder elevated their win total without ever elevating the program. It was a mirage of success built mostly on the struggles of other programs around him. It's time to pay the piper.
jayballer73 said:
BShark said:
@KUSTEVE your Shockers beat a small Christian D2 school 75-64 last night. 10 minutes in it was 15-15. Might be a tough year for your boys.
Think WSU is in for a Loooooooooooooooooooooooong - -yr lmao - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
Having Shamet leave early really hurt them.
KU needs to experiment with a small lineup of Lawson-Lawson-Garrett-Grimes-Dotson/Moore.
I would kick the tires on a K. Lawson-Garrett-Grimes-Dotson-Moore super small lineup.
These scrimmages don't give you much opportunity to do a super big lineup because the opposition doesn't have that kind of size.
There's no crowd, and weird start times. Note that the KSU - Oregon scrimmage tipped at 10AM.
There are also weird rules, weird timing and just overall weird setups. For instance, there might be an agreement between the coaches that starters will play for 5 minutes, then subs for five minutes, then starters for five minutes. Most teams don't stagger their playing time like that, so it makes for weird results when all bench guys are in, or a starter that will play 28-32 mpg only plays 10 or 15.
It's mostly a chance to get some run against good competition.
I wonder if those that are strict constitutionalists will stand up against this president for this or not.
I'll hang up and listen off air.
UK is almost certainly a Second Weekend tournament team at a minimum. Once there, it starts depending a lot more on matchups. They could go to the Final Four, or they could run into KU, Nevada, Gonzaga or Duke in the S16 or E8 and go home. But that would be the same for any of those four teams I mentioned as well. If KU and Nevada ended up in the same region, one of those teams, despite having F4 talent, is not going to the F4. Now, if any of those teams were to not make the S16, we could definitely chalk that up as a disappointment (probably add UNC to that list as well). But beyond that, it's hard to know how any of that shakes out.
For what its worth, the Packers traded Montgomery to Baltimore today. They are getting a 7th round pick in 2020 for him. Pretty clear that GB wanted to move him and wasn't worried about what they might get back.